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Wizard of Treys
… '01, and he should know. In November, Clemente became the twentieth player in Harvard history to score more than … on the all-time scoring list, plus break the Crimson record of 167 three-pointers held by Mike Gilmore '96. "Dan has … the gym--repetition," he says. He has done things that surprised even him. Last year, after the third game, he noticed …
Controlling Conflicts of Interest
… its policies governing faculty members' potential conflicts of interest in conducting their research. The revisions maintain the basic … Photograph by Stu Rosner Why should such problems even arise? First, faculty members are permitted to use 20 percent …
Issue: September-October 2004
Shruthi Kumar ’24, Senior English Address: “The Power of Not Knowing”
… for delivery. For Kumar’s additional remarks, please read the accompanying article . The Power of Not Knowing Today, we are celebrated for what we know. In fact, for most of our lives, we’ve learned to feel a sense of …
Lines of Support
… I always use the same stall in the women’s bathroom near the superintendent’s office on the first floor of Adams House—the last one on the right. It’s strange to …
Issue: March-April 2013
Off the Shelf
… Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money, by James Engell ’73, Ph.D. ’78, Gurney … Hopkins University Press, $55). This massive volume surprises and charms with old-fashioned-drawings of bridges, …
Issue: May-June 2005
The Home Front
… Lawrence S. Bacow said, “[W]e must strive to model the behavior we would hope to see elsewhere.” His context … itself, if it truly aspires to be a leading institution of higher education, at a moment when many institutions seem … - committee - 20 ). Such issues could arise about Lowell House, given President Abbott Lawrence …
Issue: May-June 2021
Synthetic Biology’s New Menagerie
… In the summer of 2009, a team of Cambridge University … prize at that year’s International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) competition, in which high-school and … “Engineering biology for the good of the world.” No surprise, then, that synthetic biology has exerted such an …
Issue: September-October 2014
Climate Change Solutions?
… Thanks in part to photographs of shrinking glaciers, news reports on the devastation caused by fierce storms, and the Nobel … plants. It might also, in theory, benefit coral reefs. The rise in CO 2 levels has made the oceans more acidic, a …
Issue: May-June 2008
Making Music Out of DNA Loops
… There is music in DNA loops. The genome, which otherwise would be the height of a refrigerator, folds into a microscopic bundle inside the nucleus of a cell, knitting itself into “loops” of genetic …
Issue: September-October 2023
Brew’s Clues
… Nearly eight years ago, Theresa McCulla ’04, Ph.D. ’17, crouched in the middle of Mass. Ave., collecting the set of chef’s knives that had … or bulletins circulated among homebrew clubs before the rise of the Internet, are “really a kind of goldmine for a …
Issue: March-April 2018
The Indispensable Power
… has never been so important as now, when we are confronting the most serious crises since the Second World War: the global pandemic and economic collapse. When we emerge finally from the grip of the coronavirus, Americans will need to account for a …
Issue: July-August 2020
Meet the Candidates
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2022 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) … in a rapidly changing world driven by technology and the rise of artificial intelligence, political and social …
Issue: March-April 2022
Advancing the Science and Art of Teaching
… The 2013 Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) … pedagogy. Ever since HILT was launched in the fall of 2011 , during Harvard’s 375 th -anniversary celebration, … essay, “The Aims of Education,” on the change from an enterprise “alive with a ferment of genius” to mere “pedantry and …
The Students Speak
… Harvard Business School (HBS) maintains the confidentiality of students’ classroom comments, but … goals.î She is now examining nonprofit and social enterprises. Students reported that their antennae have become …
Issue: September-October 2006
Wired for Life
… Forget the stereotypes of new technology being only for younger … Retirement communities generally are also responding to the rise in on-line literacy with a two-pronged effort: support …